{"id":288760,"date":"2021-07-01T19:54:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T16:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/amazons-carbon-emissions-surged-while-global-pollution-dropped\/"},"modified":"2021-07-01T19:54:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T16:54:45","slug":"amazons-carbon-emissions-surged-while-global-pollution-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/amazons-carbon-emissions-surged-while-global-pollution-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"#Amazon’s carbon emissions surged while global pollution dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Amazon’s carbon emissions surged while global pollution dropped<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Amazon said its carbon emissions surged 19 percent last year even as global pollution declined and the company publicly pledged to go green.<\/p>\n

The Seattle-based e-tailing giant \u2014 whose business exploded last year on surging demand for home-delivered goods from locked-down consumers \u2014 said it spewed out 60.64 metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2020. That made Amazon a bigger polluter than entire countries like Ireland, Portugal and Singapore, according to European Union data<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amazon\u2019s 2020 emissions represent a dramatic increase from the 51.17 million metric tons of carbon the company released in 2019 and 44.40 metric tons it expelled 2018, according to the company\u2019s sustainability report<\/a> released Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While Amazon\u2019s carbon footprint expanded, overall global emissions fell by a surprising 7 percent in 2020 \u2014 the largest drop in history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Amazon spewed out a total of 60.64 metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2020. <\/figcaption>
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The release of Amazon\u2019s report comes amid a heat wave in the US and Canada that has killed more than 100 people and broken all-time temperature records in the company\u2019s hometown of Seattle. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Amazon has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2040 and power all of its business activities through renewable energy by 2025. As part of that push, the company is buying up energy capacity from solar and wind plants around the world. \u00a0<\/p>\n

While Wednesday\u2019s report shows that Amazon still has a long way to go before reaching its climate goals, the company insists it is moving in the right direction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos insists the company is making progress on its climate goals. <\/figcaption>
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As evidence that Amazon is becoming more energy efficient as it expands, the firm pointed the fact that a metric called \u201ccarbon intensity\u201d \u2014 which tracks carbon emissions per dollar of sales \u2014 declined by 16 percent from 2019 to 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cInvesting in green technologies is the right thing to do for the planet and citizens \u2014as well as for the long-term success of businesses of all sizes across all industries everywhere,\u201d\u00a0founder Jeff Bezos, who is preparing to step down as CEO and blast into space, said in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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As evidence that Amazon is becoming more energy efficient as it expands, the firm pointed the fact that a metric called \u201ccarbon intensity\u201d \u2014 which tracks carbon emissions per dollar of sales \u2014 declined by 16 percent from 2019 to 2020.\u00a0<\/figcaption>
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